Mark Goulston Quotes

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.

Mark Goulston

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GoodExperiencePeopleSomeoneWhy

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

John Gordon Sinclair

AgeDayMeThoughtYouOne Day

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

Matt Haig

MindYouSeeThingsGoingIntense

The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated.

Stewart Butterfield

TeamworkElementPerhaps

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

LoveJusticeLove IsStrongerThan

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Tony Hawk

PeopleStartTalkingYouHouseWant

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

LifePetDogsWholeMakeOur

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Milton Friedman

OrganizationCapitalismGreedProblem

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Brian Clough

PeopleWinYouLoseKnowGames

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

Anouska Hempel

GoodThoughtLookThingsBeingKnew

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

SufferingWorldFiresAroundStrife

The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

Alice Morse Earle

AmericanFatWayFirstLighting

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

Peggy Johnson

LifeWorkHomeBalanceYouYour

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